As if the Padres aren’t a big enough mess...I’m watching the Cardinals and Padres and just noticed that even though the Pads are wearing their brown and yellow jerseys tonight, AJ Ellis is wearing a navy helmet under his catchers mask.

Exactly. If he had been wearing pink, blue, red, orange etc...then I get it. But they better be warning every player that has some funky colored cleats. But he was wearing a team color for Pete's sake! If they want to enforce a uniform code, do it for all players for all parts of their uniform, all the time. Everyone wears either long pants, or high pants with matching socks; everyone wears matching undershirts, pads, etc...all in team colors.
I don't see how Lowrie wearing green cleats with an A's uniform is worthy of a warning from the league and all the other nonsense that goes on is just fine. I'm a Cardinals fan. I'm happy to have Marcell Ozuna. But if green cleats for an A's player warrants a warning, surely a neon green arm sleeve with a Cardinals uniform warrants one! On the road he's used red, so he obviously owns one.

Sorry, I was talking about Busch in St. Louis and the giant plot of dirt we had for quite a few years. They kept saying they wanted Ballpark Village done before the All-Star Game in 2009 and it didn't actually get done until a couple of years ago. I've never been to DC but that's really a shame. You'd think with it being as new as it is they would've added something special to it to help it stand out.

I know what you mean. It's still better than when St. Louis hosted the All-Star Game and we still had a view of a big dirt lot. I'm glad they finally got something built there that looks decent, but man it would've been better if it had been done then.

While I may be a bit partial having grown up with him, I find Fredbird to be one of the best mascots. I do think it's more for the kids, but part of me still loves it as it reminds me of my childhood. And ultimately, that's part of the greatness of baseball, being able to still bring out the kid in us that just loves the game.

From a color standpoint, I'd love to see the Cardinals use this as a road cap. Bringing back some navy, while not losing the red.
EDIT: For some reason I can't get it to upload the pic, but I am referring to the new Cards BP cap.
https://twitter.com/Cardinals/status/932684345734770689

Yep, I had forgotten the Astros. I knew I was forgetting someone, but I am so used to the Astros previous set from all the times they battled the Cardinals for the NL Central in the 2000s and I haven't seen them as much since the switch to the AL. I still think that they could both pull it off, especially since they are in different leagues now.

I suppose my opinion doesn't really matter as I'm not from San Diego or a Padres fan, but man, those navy/orange uniforms look so much better than the current bland nonsense. I know there are varying opinions on what color scheme the Padres should go with, but those are the ones I remember most and just feels right to me. I don't recall any other team with navy and orange. I think I remember some arguments that navy/orange was to close to San Francisco's black/orange but I never mistook one for the other. It's a shame they won't pick a good option and run with it.
1. Navy and Orange - my preference
2. Navy and yellow (2016) - Looked pretty good, no reason to ditch it this year
3. Brown and yellow - not my favorite, but if updated and done correctly could work
No excuse for the bland ridiculousness they are now.